dc414 November meeting’s awesomeness

Well Novembers meeting was one of our best for sure! Many thanks to James and Bucketworks for putting the safe opening event together and letting us play with your locks and junk, you are the best! It all started with everyone just fucking off enjoying some snacks, cold beers, and some tunes. Then Klaiviel and James got the party started.

Klaiviel gave us a little intro to the safe, its lock, and some of the history all the while James was playing the roll of Geraldo all too well and dropping the lulz like no one. Once the safe was open there was a mad dash to see what was inside!! Lots of brooms, paper and some beta tapes suspected to be vintage pron. Cmoney took lots of pictures and video “below” of the safe opening.

After the party died down a little bit we talked about a issue one of our members is having with china and how to resolve them. Then ngharo and I gave a small demo on physical security and some of the tools one might use. We focused on Switchblade and an Arduino USB keyboard emulator “this is a post for another day” to pwn the shit out of windows, man that was fun. Ok thats it, peace.

F4r4d4y jr won an IE6 admin pack
Winner of free dc414 junk

The following videos are just og the safe opening and viewing of the contents:
pt1

pt2

Full video of the party
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/18313140

 

dc414 Halloween party

Here are some pictures from the dc414 Halloween party. Me and dw5304 messed with an arduino project I have been working on and Klaiviel gave us a little preview of some sweet safe locks hes bringing to the next meeting then later him and I had a little nerf war!!! My ass was thoroughly kicked, lol. Many thanxs to Ulic and his wife for hosting the party! We had a blast!

My lame IR copy toy pt2

Some of you might remember the first post on my lame IR copy toy. Well I have tweaked the code a little and put it all on a nice little PCB board that fits great over the Arduino, here is the “finished” project:

Heres some video of it working:

Heres it being used to control a helicopter:

Here is the code:

One thing I left out of my first post is in order for this to work you have to use this IR remote library from Ken Shirriff. Thats it, peace.

Internet in Peril

Got this alarming email from the good folks at SavetheInternet.com and thought I should share it with the rest of you.

Dear dc414,

You’ve heard from me a lot recently about the “resolution of disapproval” (S.J. Res. 6) against Net Neutrality, which extremists plan to push through the Senate.

There’s a reason for all the emails: This dangerous resolution would hand over control of the Internet to companies like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon while stripping the FCC of any authority to protect users’ online rights.

The vote on this resolution could happen as early as next week. So we need you to be a part of Free Press’ national call-in campaign to make one thing absolutely clear to Congress: “Corporations can’t take the Internet away from us.”

Please pick up the phone now and call Sens. Herb Kohl and Ron Johnson. Tell them: “Don’t sell out our basic right to communicate online. Vote ‘no’ on the resolution of disapproval.”

We’ve created an easy-to-use “whiplist” that helps you make the call. Just enter your zip code, find your senators and click their names. We’ve also provided a sample call script should you need to use some talking points.

Here’s the thing our senators need to know: An overwhelming majority of Americans want an open Internet. Period. We don’t want corporations blocking what we say or do online. We want every website, from the biggies like Amazon and Google to sites operated by millions of small businesses and bloggers, to be treated the same, with no fast lanes for companies with deep pockets.

These are simple, common-sense demands, and it’s time our senators heard them.

So pick up the phone, call your senators and demand they vote “no” on this resolution of disapproval. We’ll follow up on our progress as we get closer to the vote.

Thanks for everything you do,

Josh Levy
Associate Campaign Director
Free Press Action Fund
SavetheInternet.com

So if you like the freedom of the net, call your senator now to preserve it, I already did. 🙂

October meeting recap.

October’s meeting was awesome as always and we had a few new faces which is always a good thing! We all hacked away at Windows Server 8 for a bit and found a few bugs, but unfortunately for the n00bs the meeting didn’t really get popping until after they let :/

ngharo gave us all a great talk on the wall of sheep. How he coded it, what he coded it in, what other software was used, and all the challenges that came up along the way. Dark Wind brought a toy remote controlled helicopter that uses IR for control, we found out my IR copy toy could be used to copy codes from the remote and take control of the helicopter 🙂 I was excited to finally get to use my 1337 IR copy toy on something!!

After all the IR fun there was a little talk about making a arduino based safe cracker to get into the safe at Bucketworks, that should be a cool project once its all done. Then I showed everyone how to make their own resisters with little more the a piece of paper and a pencil. The DIY fun didn’t stop there, I also demo’ed how to make capacitors using just tin foil, cling wrap, tap and some wire! Then while trying to make the home made capacitor blow up we did found out that if you expose it to high voltage, like the kind coming out of a wall outlet, it will start buzzing and expanding 🙂

A congrats to Dark Wind on winning the dc414 free junk give away, he got Red Hat Linux 6.1 enterprise with the extended support package 😛 Here is some pictures courtesy of cmoney “tyvm cmoney”, I didn’t get a pic of Dark Wind with his winning because, idk, I failed. Ok thats it see you next time.

Meeting place change.

dc414 has just about grown out of our current meeting space so we are going to start testing out a few new venues starting with Bucketworks. So the meeting will still be on the 10.7.11 at 7pm it will just be at a new location.

Location address:
706 S 5th St
Milwaukee, WI. 53204
Click here for directions and such.

If you plan on coming bring at least $5 (or more) or a non-perishable food item to donate.

dc414 @ barcamp mke

We are proud to announce that dc414 will have a little area at barcamp mke this year! We will be selling stickers, taking orders for shirts, handing out fliers, showcasing some of our past projects and running a DEFCON style wall of sheep “with a dc414 twist”!! Should be lots of fun so come check out our area and barcamp!

To keep up to date with dc414’s activities at barcamp mke you can follow us on our mailing list, facebook, and twitter. Hope to see you there.

My little hackers

I have a house full of little n00bs who have been “hacking” each other in the house lately. See we have one laptop in the house that the kids share in the living room and form time to time one kid will get up and not log out of the sites he/she were using and one of the others will sit down, see the sites open and leave little messages like “hacked by so and so”.

It all started when my oldest boy (19) liked a bunch of dick related stuff on my youngest boys (14) face book account. lol. They have even got cmoney a few times! Now normally i would yell at them for things like this but no one got hurt and they are learning a valuable lesson in technology that is normally learned at much greater coast. Plus it might spark an interest in security for them as well, at the very lest they are more aware of it.

So all in all i think its a good thing they jest in this manner, i just hope they keep it as such. One thing i know for sure is i will be scanning that laptop for key loggers on the regular now 😛

September’s meeting was great!!

The last meeting was awesome as always! My SQLi presentation went well and i even got to do a little demo of iPillage, i took my IR Copy toy but didnt really get to play with it. dw5304, wowed all showing his remote boot system hes working on that needs only a NIC, and gave a little tut on surface soldering! It doesn’t stop there, Klaiviel schooled us all a little in HAM radio, how to track someone with it and how to get your message across the world! He also did a little lock pick demo and GAVE EVERYONE A FREE LOCK! Thanks bro! 🙂 I only took a few pictures this week and here they are.

Everyone got a free dc414 sticker for showing up as well as “Things to know if the FBI show up” cards from DEFCON19 and UCLA. We also got to use our new free junk give away random picker, thanks to ngharo for coding that up, and gave away a few LAN taps, and as always our free junk! Congrats go to Meg again for winning The NORTON Essentials for Mac or more of the crap i don’t want anymore 😛

Meg showing off her free dc414 junk

Introducing ENCOSH

dc414 is happy to bring you ENCOSH, a online encoding and hashing app. You just feed ENCOSH a string and it will hash it using MD4, MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, LM, NTLM and encodes it using Base64, ROT13, HEX, URL, RawURL then spits them all out for you. I had used it as a personal tool for a long time and got lots of use out of it for sql injections and what not so im sure someone else will as well, so enjoy 🙂